Talk:Protein Data Bank
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · history · refresh · how to use this template) Although I feel that this article is more than a stub, I don't think it matches the criteria for start, being a general introduction to an incomplete range of topics (i.e. no "subheading that fully treats an element of the topic" nor "multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article"). Secondly, although this article is Top importance as far as I am concerned, it is Mid or Low on your scale. --Dan|(talk) 13:40, 7 March 2008 (UTC) |
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This is more as a word of warning: Viewing structures via the PDB seems to work best with Netscape 4.7x. I have no luck with IE and some of the Chime-dependent display programs warn you that Netscape 6 won't work either. - David M
[edit] More detail and references needed in history section
From the article: "The PDB is a key resource in structural biology and is critical to more recent work in structural genomics." Some references here for work that uses the PDB in an interesting/important way would be good.
From the article: "Countless derived databases and projects have been developed to integrate and classify the PDB in terms of protein structure, protein function and protein evolution." Such as? Give some examples for the derived databases.
From the growth section: "The growth rate of the PDB has been the subject of fairly extensive analysis." .. such as? this needs referencing, why was it subject to extensive analysis? where are these?
[edit] Raw data?
Knowing the amount of modeling which goes to a structure deposited to the PDB, I would hardly call the coordinate files in PDB as 'raw data'.
[edit] Protein Data Bank (file format) needed
A new page Protein Data Bank (file format) is needed, which should cross link to Chemical file format and use also the proper [[Category:Chemical file format]] category. JKW 15:58, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Initial Protein Data Bank (file format) created and anything related to format discussions on the Protein Data Bank should be moved to this page. JKW 11:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
